Word: scottishness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early Life & Politics: Son of a village storekeeper and grandson of a miner who lost his job trying to start Australia's first miners' union. A selfmade man of 61 who is tremendously proud of his background, he calls himself "a reasonably bigoted descendant of the Scottish race." Winning top scholarships from schooldays on, he took first-class honors in law at Mel bourne University and went on to become Melbourne's ranking barrister, earning $50,000 a year and "taking silk" at 34, to become the youngest King's Counsel in Australian history...
Conducting the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at the Edinburgh Festival, Britain's terrible-tempered Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham paused between downbeats to take a swipe at his Scottish host. The Edinburgh Festival and others like it are "bunk." said Sir Thomas. "They are for the purpose of attracting trade for the town. What that has to do with music I don't know...
Disclaiming any plot to "Americanize" Killarney with motor boats or automobiles, Robertson, of Scottish-Irish descent, plans to summer in Killarney, winter in Florida...
Joseph Wanton is character analysis in the grand manner. Done by Scottish Immigrant John Smibert, it shows a Royalist politician whose bland, irresolute features bode ill for his future fame. After Wanton became Governor of Rhode Island, he fought with soft talk the stirrings of the American Revolution, and retired the moment the storm broke. Painter Smibert's story was just the opposite. He learned his craft by studying the masters while painting carriages, came to America in 1729, when he was 40. One year later he held the first art show ever recorded in America, and became...
Free & Equal. The society's real aim is refurbishing ideas. It was founded in 1949 by Colonel David Stirling, 40, a hard-driving bachelor who led a commando unit in daring raids against Rommel behind German lines in the western desert. Settling in Rhodesia after the war, Scottish-born Stirling was shocked by the rising racial hatred he saw everywhere. He decided to do something about it "before total catastrophe overtakes both white and non-white societies." His plan: a society of all Africans, regardless of color, in which each would have equal rights and-as he fulfilled certain...